Microsoft SQL Server “Most Valuable Professional” MVP

Today I received an email notifying me that I have been awarded the Microsoft “MVP” award. An excerpt from Microsoft’s...

Randomized Colors in Report

Randomized color report? So help my CODE!
 
Writing a Reporting Services report can be challenging, making you use the most of...

Stay Tuned…for a SQL Server Tutorial Series Juggling Act

by Steve Bolton
…………If all goes according to plan, my blog will return in a few weeks with two brand new...

HA and DR Precon in Baton Rouge

I’ll be doing a precon for SQLSaturday #324 in Baton Rouge Louisiana on August 1st, 2014 titled “A Day of...

I like to move it, move it. Upload and download binary data to or from SQL Server using standard tools

Imagine that you have a huge collection of Hello Kitty images (I do).
One day you make a decision to organize...

Introduction to Spinlocks in SQL Server

(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan – you get a weekly email packed with all the...

Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #90

It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up.  If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...

Make BOL your friend

One of the most powerful tools we have as users of SQL Server is Books Online (BOL).  Whether you work...

PASS SQLSaturday – speaking on “Streamlining SQL Server Implementations across organization”

In this session Prakash will walk through the process he has implemented to alleviates many of the pain points for...

PASS SQLSaturday - speaking on -Streamlining SQL Server Implementations across organization-